The gatekeepers of television comedy make up a small clique.

All must be penalized for the offenses of this small clique, and because they have already made it, the perpetrators go free.

He is part of the small clique that has all the privileges.

Several participants expressed concern about students who shut themselves up in small cliques.

And most of them said they mostly kept to their families or to a small clique of friends.

This could be the work of a small clique in their military, rather than a policy decision by Pyongyang.

Social justice will also do much more to bring about economic development than the inequality of dictatorships ruled by a small clique at the top.

He found the small clique that represented the children on his floor of the apartment house and joined them.

But a long experience with authoritarian rule by small cliques seemed to raise disquiet.

In the past, free expression was constrained, decisions were made by a small clique, and the government felt no accountability to the public.